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WEDNESDAY, MARCH 25, 1981
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By SHARON D. RENFROW
Battalion Reporter
The threat of communism was
11 one of the major concerns of five
international student speakers
% Stepping Cti during a seminar on world issues
29t|| St, Bf| Tuesday night in 102 Zachry.
* Tt The seminar was the third of a
seven-series program sponsored
by the International Student Asso-
'liation and the International
^wareness Committee at Texas
targe famislniK&M University. In these semi-
! in June. Hi nars students tell their viewpoints
on world issues concerning their
untries.
The student speakers from
uador, El Salvador, Guatema
la, Honduras and Nicaragua ex-
essed strong disapproval of
mmunism and concern for the
nflict in El Salvador.
Rudy Kraeher, worried about
the strife going on between his
government in El Salvador and
ttiecommunist-supported guerril-
MME¥Hlla.s, said that there was a great
Of StlldeiU>iieed to keep communism out of
rch Projecpis country.
IAI IAB If T1 Salvador goes commun-
JML Jv[|ism, so does Central America,”
C0licfl raeher sa ^’ because our prob-
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nale. If youi 'there are guerrillas from all over in
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Kraeher saw a great need for
American aid in El Salvador. “The
most important thing for El Salva
dor is freedom and the United
States is needed to help us keep
it,” he said.
Guatemala, located above El
Salvador, is being affected by the
chaos also. Central America is a
small world, Carlos Zuniga said,
and what affects one country
affects its neighbors. “Commun
ism is not wanted in Central
America; it’s being imposed,”
Zuniga said.
Guatemala does not like Com
munism, he said. The Guatemalan
constitution forbids any com
munistic party, or other parties to
overthrow the democratic process
in the country.
Ecuador, too, supports a demo
cratic government. It was under a
dictatorship for eight years before
it changed, Enrique Cobos said.
Jeff Cadena, the other speaker
for Ecuador, said that his country
has severed relationship with
Cuba due to its lack of respect for
human rights. Ecuador made this
move after Cubans entered into
the Ecuadorian embassy without
their permission and took 31 dissi
dent Cubans seeking asylum
there.
In Honduras, some of the peo- ■■
pie fear the threat of guerrilla war-
fare. With El Salvador and Nicar
agua as neighbors, Jorge Valle
said, Honduras tends to be a play
ground for the right and left
forces.
However, the military govern
ment seems to be the best for the
country right now and, as long as
there is this absence of the com
mon enemy, radicals can’t find
support, he said.
While El Salvador is under
going strife, Nicaragua is trying to
repair itself. After the 1979 re
volution, Nicaragua has been
undergoing a serious economic
depression, Federico Holmann
said. Attempts by the Sandinistan
government to fix the situation
have failed due to its instability
and the lack of confidence by pri
vate enterprises, he said.
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By SUSAN DITTMAN
■ Battalion Reporter
The Academy Awards is a pub
lic relations event for the movie
industry, Eric Gerber, movie cri
tic for The Houston Post, said
Tuesday night.
■ He said, “I was going to bring a
pial aid tonight, but Robert De-
couldn’t come.” Gerber
Joke to about 30 persons in Rud-
fer Theater sitting on a chair in
mt of the first row.
H Gerber said box office success,
kctor/actress charisma and an
established studio name often de-
t|rmine the Oscar nominees.
. .■However, Gerber said, “The
old?! “ minations (for Best Picture) this
year are pretty good.
■“I can’t think of another year
•When every one of the nominees
are of equal merit. ”
■The five nominees for Best Pic
ture are; “Coal Miner’s Daugh
ter,” “Elephant Man,” “Ordinary
People,” “Raging Bull” and
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' K“I really have no preference
which one wins,” the native Hous
tonian said.
■ Gerber did, however, say that
he thinks “Ordinary People” will
win although he prefers “Raging
Bull.”
?He said the film nominees are
all people-oriented — three of
them are biographies while the
rr other two are mainly about
iSL people.
K; Gerber said he thinks members
■the Academy of Motion Picture
ts and Sciences are re-
aluating what is important to
by nominating films that
ren t necessarily big box office
STUDS' Recesses.
fij Other nominees Gerber has
TER picked to win are: Robert Bedford
rnillf ~~ ® est Di rector (Ordinary Peo-
J ^0Ull , pie), Robert Deniro — Best Actor
r lfMtl bud) an d either Mary Tyl-
lUIN er Moore (Ordinary People) or
.j , Sissy Spacek (Coal Miner’s
3l daughter) — Best Actress.
Gerber said that although
lacek is his personal preference,
. lary Tyler Moore has a big
boo S, vantage because she is older
llaneousw
iformatlof
>-1515.
and her son just killed himself a
few months ago.”
People tend to be sympathetic
to age and tragedy, Gerber
emphasized.
Gerber said the awards began in
1929 and “only a dozen awards
were made.” Now the awards in
clude 22 categories.
The name Oscar was first used
when one of the members of the
academy exclaimed that the 14
inch high statue looked just like
her cousin Oscar, Gerber said.
The academy is made up of
3,800 members who must belong
to organizations such as the
Screen Actors Guild, the Dire
ctors Guild or the Writers Guild.
Senate to
to cut old
bill load
The student senate will try to
cut down its load of old legislation
before upcoming elections in a
meeting tonight at 7:30 in 204
Harrington.
Thirteen bills currently listed
under “old business” must be
acted upon before student repre
sentatives chosen in the March 31-
April 1 elections can begin legisla
tive operations.
Measures that may be acted
upon tonight include:
— A bill proposing official Uni
versity recognition of the Inter-
Fraternity Council and the
PanHellenic Association.
— A measure requesting that a
modular dormitory be assigned to
male students.
— A bill proposing establish
ment of a University-sponsored
outdoor recreation facility.
— A proposed request that
would raise fines for illegal park
ing without a University permit to
$20.
However, the senate does not
take action on all old legislation
tonight.
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Photo by George Dolan
Carlos Zuniga, a Guatemalan student, spoke Tuesday night in
102 Zachry at the International Seminar on World Issues.
Students representative of Central America presented view
points on issues concerning their countries.
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